Jungle Hunt is an arcade video game released in 1982 by Taito Corporation. It began life as Jungle
King (which itself began as a prototype named "Jungle Boy").
However, Jungle King's main character bore a very strong
resemblance to Tarzan, down to his trademark yell. As a result,
Taito was sued by the estate that owned the rights to Tarzan. As a
compromise, Taito made cosmetic changes to the game that switched
the Tarzan-look-alike into a safari explorer and removed the yell.
Just about everything else in the game remained the same.

In Jungle Hunt (or King), the main character's girlfriend has
been kidnapped by natives. In order to get her back, the character
must endure four trials before he can rescue her. First he must
swing on ropes (or vines) over a dangerous jungle floor. Then he
must swim through crocodile infested waters, armed with only a
knife. Then he must climb a mountain during an avalanche and dodge
the falling rocks. Finally he must jump over the somewhat oblivious
natives guarding his girlfriend and cut her down from the rope
where she hangs over a boiling pot of water.

Jungle Hunt was a minor success (once all of the legal problems
were sorted out.) It was actually one of the earliest side
scrolling action games, although the action scrolls from right to
left. After making one cosmetic revision to the game, Taito tried
to pull a hat-trick, and revised the game once more as Pirate
Pete, replacing the jungle theme with a pirate theme, but it
was made more difficult, and was far less popular. Atari sought to
acquire the rights to publish Jungle Hunt on its home systems, as
well as for competing systems through the Atarisoft label. This may
have been in response to the tremendous success of Pitfall! by Activision. Jungle Hunt was released in
conjunction with Kangaroo as part
of the "Atari Safari" marketing campaign.

A leisurely Jungle safari turned into fiasco when your lady
friend was kidnapped by two cannibals. They'll turn her into soup
if you don't rescue her quickly! To rescue your friend, you'll need
to make your way past four obstacles: a jungle where you'll jump
from rope to rope, a river filled with open-jawed crocodiles, a
landslide of boulders, and a cannibal campsite where your friend
hangs suspended over a steaming pot of soup. Rescue her before she
becomes the main course.